My Experience with IAF will be given here. Let me start with the first day of my career with IAF. On 12 Oct 1987 the Monday was my first day in IAF.
We were recruited in Chennai and were said that we would be routed to Bangalore. The same day we were sent to Bangalore by Bangalore mail. Though I belonged to Bangalore reaching the place with so many co-recruits and then all were dumped in a "Shaktiman" and sent to our Training Institute was a different experience.
On reaching there we had to wait for some time (hours) to get our billets. We were allotted one senior.
The most depressing incident for all our co-recruits came following. Many of them had punk style haircut, stepcut, all sorts of fancy hairdo. We were all taken to the barber shop enmasse to get ourselves 'disciplined'. I did not sport a different hairdo my haircut in regular used to be similar to the defence cut.
All were given the 'Traditional' 'Chappati cut'. Even though my hairs prior to this was very small even then the barber gathered maybe about 1/2 kg of hairs from me. (only imaginery weight). Imagine the plight of my other recruits.
Many of them literally wept for having joined the force only reason was haircut and not homesickness. The dinner in the mess was to be wasted as almost all of them did not have their dinner that day.
